AI for Cities/Projects

Projects

Applications, datasets and models built by the group. Each one is meant to be opened, not just cited.

New York City on a 250-metre grid, each populated cell coloured by its best-matched cooling intervention
Live New York City Urban heat

Heatscape NYC

A 250-metre grid over New York City that scores every populated cell for heat risk across 43 indicators, then matches it to the cooling intervention its context actually supports — and shows the causal path it took to get there.

The URIS Mapper causal diagram editor, showing a system-dynamics view with feedback loop badges and the Loop Assistant panel
Live Causal loop diagrams System dynamics

URIS Mapper

A browser-based platform for building and interrogating causal loop diagrams. It finds the reinforcing and balancing loops in a map for you, filters the structure by subsystem, and answers questions about what is currently on screen.


Workstreams

In development

Four threads run in parallel underneath the shipped work. Each has a named lead and is where new projects come from.

In development

Urban Digital Twin Platform

Scalable, efficient infrastructure for visualisation, analytics and simulation — the substrate every other workstream builds on.

In development

Spatial AI and Reasoning

Machine learning and data analytics for high-resolution spatial understanding: flow prediction, anomaly detection, and inference of the patterns cities leave in their data.

In development

Agentic Geospatial Intelligence

Agentic tools, servers and knowledge infrastructure that let frontier models reason about places rather than just describe them.

In development

Policy & Deployment

Translating research into practice through municipal partnerships, pilot digital-twin deployments, and honest assessment of what changed in the planning decisions that followed.

Build the next one

Depending on interest, milestones can include developing your own app or AI project, presenting it to stakeholders, releasing a code package or dataset, or publishing.